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PCL soft font problem
Chris, I already used PCL Paraphernalia for analyzing my font before creating this thread, but it didn't show any problems in the font. Currently (being at home) I don't know if it displayed the pitch width of 0, but without knowing the importance of that field, there would have been no reason... -
PCL soft font problem
Success! With your tip I was able to correct the problem! Thank you very much, guys! The problem with my font was a pitch value of 0. I modified th that value to 0xFB, furthermore I removed the definition of the space character, and voila: the LaserJet 4250 prints spaces as well as the Lexmark... -
PCL soft font problem
I'll try to generate an output for 'Hello forum', but I won't manage to do this today -
PCL soft font problem
> I have never seen where a TrueType pcl font created by a > windows driver has a chr(32) glyph. I always thought that > there was a 'horizontal motion' field in the header that > supplied the spacing advance. Which field in the font header could that be? I didn't find an according field for... -
PCL soft font problem
> On re-reading this, I'm not sure just what you've done; did you: > > (a) add the space character to the donor OpenType font, then generate the PCLETTO font from this updated .OTF font? > > or: > (b) just insert the <esc>*c32E<esc>(s10W + 10 data bytes into the already generated PCLETTO font... -
PCL soft font problem
'no blanks on all of our printers' means that the printer does not advance the horizontal cursor when printing a space. It prints any character correctly, but no space, e.g. if you send Hello forum to the printer, the printed page looks like Helloforum Unfortunatly the OTF font is not public... -
PCL soft font problem
Hi, if I remove the space character from the font as you described, there's no space being printed on all of our test printers, including those printers, that printed the space before. The first tests with my font did not include the space character, and no space was printed at all. This is... -
PCL soft font problem
Hi all, I have a question regarding PCL soft fonts. We are developers of an application, that prints to PCL5 printers directly, i.e. without using the printer driver. This application is also using PCL soft fonts. Most soft fonts have been converted from TTF. While this generally works fine...
